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Three prisoners on death row will be hanged at Faisalabad’s Central Jail on Tuesday.
The jail spokesperson said on Sunday that Muhammad Akram had killed the father of his paramour in Medina Town. He was sentenced to death by a sessions court.
Saeed Ahmed of Chak 349-JB and Shahid Mehmood of Ghulam Abad were sentenced to death in other murder cases.
Their appeals had been dismissed by superior courts. Their mercy petitions were also turned down by the president. The spokesperson said arrangements for their execution were complete and they will meet their families for the last time on Monday.
In Bahawalpur, two convicts on death row will be executed on Tuesday and another on Wednesday at the Central Jail. Bahawalnagar District and Session Judge Nisar Ahmad has issued death warrants for the convicts. Shahid was involved in a murder case in a Chishtian Saddar police precinct. Mustafa had murdered a man in a McLeod Ganj police precinct. A Lodhran district and session judge issued death warrants for Fayyaz to be hanged on October 21. He was convicted of murder in a Kehror Pakka Saddar police precinct.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 19th, 2015.
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